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continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published in the last
24 hours.
A preparedness exercise was held recently for employees from the FEMA Mississippi Transitional Recovery Office (TRO). Senior officials wanted to test the agency's continuity of operations plan and identify strengths and weaknesses in anticipation of future disasters. In the event of a COOP execution, equipment and essential staff from FEMA's Mississippi Gulf Coast offices will temporarily relocate to Purvis to continue Katrina recovery operations. Other personnel will either be released to manage their own families and property and will return to duty once the operation is re-established, or they will relocate to Pearl to assist FEMA's regional response team in any response effort. While FEMA personnel and resources will be pre-positioned to handle new disasters, the focus for TRO staff will be the Katrina recovery effort. The exercise gave most employees an opportunity to see how each program interacted in the immediate aftermath of a disaster.
A temporary control zone has been put around one premises in Solihull (UK). This is a precautionary measure. An assessment of clinical symptoms by Animal Health veterinary staff has been carried out, and laboratory test results are awaited. At this stage disease has not been confirmed. http://www.defra.gov.uk/footandmouth
DataCore Software has announced that Kingston City Council, a municipality of Melbourne, has selected DataCore's virtual SAN solution. The solution, proposed and implemented by DataCore solutions partner, Lincom Solutions, gives the Kingston City Council a robust virtual storage infrastructure providing high availability data protection and offsite disaster recovery that fully complements its existing storage systems and integrates seamlessly into their VMware virtual server environment. www.datacore.com
World weather impacts
Slovenia floods rises
Weakened Typhoon Wipha drenches Eastern China
•Date: 20th September 2007• Region: Various
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